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The video artwork “A View From Above” (Kassel, 2017) by Hiwa K tells the story of a man from Kurdistan or Northern Iraq who applied for asylum in Europe. While listening to the voiceover that unfolds the intricate story of his migration, the viewer's eyes follow long tracking shots of an urban landscape devastated by war. After a short while, it becomes obvious that the footage is not of a real city but of a plastic scale model showing the city of Kassel at the end of the Second World War. Referencing older and more recent theories of memory (Halbwachs, Rothberg), the article discusses the extent to which Hiwa K's work facilitates a form of multidirectional memory.

Keywords: cartography ; collective memory ; gaze from nowhere ; juxtaposing histories ; narratives of migration ; story of a refugee ; uncomfortable memory ; video art ; view from above ; visibility

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Artistically Juxtaposed (Hi)stories: Hiwa K's View from Above as a Multidirectional Memory Practice
Intellect , 15 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389616_3
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